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Android smartwatches have a design problem. Hybrids could be the answer.
With the Gemini era coming to Android smartwatches, I think we're ready to try hybrid Wear OS watches that put more effort into style.
But when my non-techy relatives ranked watches from prettiest to ugliest, they crowned the Withings ScanWatch 2 hybrid the best — and called the rest of the smartwatches boring at best and unwearable or ugly at worst. Fossil spent years as the main Wear OS option while other brands abandoned it, giving users access to different sub-brand styles — Michael Kors, Skagen Falster, Kate Spade, and so on — with Google's signature apps and assistant. Just like Meta put its smart glasses tech inside of Ray-Bans, and soon Oakleys, Google and Samsung could employ the help of well-known luxury watch brands to launch their simplified version of Wear OS Think Rolex, Cartier, Omega, Patek Philippe, and so on!
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